Patient-Level Reporting of Sexual Health the healthcare system

Reporting of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs.), chronic diseases, and other areas of concern should be done in full compliance with any government and local statutory requirements that may apply. The collection of such data is primarily gleaned on a patient-level (by a doctor) or at the laboratory level and must be verifiable by Public Health Officials.  The need for proper data collection is quite evident, as this data will now be reported to the relevant authorities. The information utilized to ascertain and monitor main areas of concern. The levels of reporting may be too personal and private concerns, local government bodies such as ministries of health, National Health bodies, Global health bodies (CDC, PAHO, WHO, and others).   

Some insights that may be garnered from these reports could be as follows:

 1.) To better understand, to what extent

These health-risk behaviors impact our world; the efficacy of preventative-care measures that have been implemented; the negative scourges such diseases bring to patients, families, society, and governments – locally and internationally including the social and economic disadvantages ascertained to victims.

2.)  To chart the progress of prevention strategies.

These strategies may involve the administration of proven or new drugs, education, counseling, information gathering, etc. The reporting of results obtained from these and other preventative measures over a given time can be duly assessed to show if the mitigating steps being taken are indeed proving effective.

3.)  To help policymakers and Public Health Officials

Treat these diseases in as pro-active a manner as is possible. In some areas and countries, the overarching approach to reporting, in particular STDs, is to focus on prevention and further spreading where possible. As such, guided by the need for confidentiality, in the case of multiple partners or an outbreak, it may be deemed necessary to confidentially inform those most likely to be infected, as opposed to keeping the infected person’s identity unknown.  Reporting data can also help to identify affected segments of society, where located, the concentration of disease, contact tracing, severity, occurrences, etc. Some interesting facts and statistics can be seen on the following CDC website:  https://www.cdc.gov/datastatistics/index.html

The surveillance data compiled will probably contain a compilation of many subsets of information and may really depend on the direction of the reporting.  Is the data report for global attention, national, local, or personal use? Is it for medical reporting, science. In short what is the reporting information to be used for? Demographics such as age, activities, area, education, ethnicity, gender, income, job, nationality, religion, preferences, socioeconomic status, etc. All play a significant part in indicating, identifying, and curtailing the effects of these and other diseases. From local, to national, to geographical segments, to global … the necessity to escalate from endemic to a pandemic will be data-driven as provided by reported statistics.

It is quite apparent that if STDs, chronic illnesses, and other serious illnesses are to be dealt with in terms of immediate treatment and/or searching for a long-term solution,  then the accurate clinical reporting of these illnesses is critical.

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